TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. cto , product , saas Inquisitiveness: Prior to starting the project, you should receive an estimate of the work effort. To provide an accurate estimate, the firm should ask a multitude of questions.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

In order to create a SaaS platform which acts as the “last mile” to public clouds, RightScale began operations by providing consulting services to companies who wanted to access Amazon’s EC3 services. As a Seed Investor and addVisor , I witnessed firsthand how RightScale’s Founders avoided the structural limitations of a body-shop business.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the market we’ve seen the massive uptick of SaaS valuations in the public markets and commensurate attention on private market fundings and valuations. Finally, thank you to the readers of this blog. You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! Best, Mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I follow Jason Lemkin closely (he’s a long-time friend) and he speaks frequently and passionately about SaaS businesses having built a successful one himself. His blog is even called SaaStr (a bit too close to Suster if you ask me ;-)).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

When I decided to start blogging again (I had done so as an entrepreneur) I thought about how to brand myself. I was a guy who had built 2 SaaS companies and had sold to and worked for Salesforce.com. I could become the SaaS guy. If you ever want a quick way to my blog, btw, you can just type that.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. It’s just math.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In the past, companies were just blogging, or just creating content. It's really thinking about content publishing in a new way, in a way that combines original content, licensed content, curated content, and aggregated content into one system, and with one publishing strategy, and takes advantage of all of those capabilities.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Ironically, studies have shown that the majority of value associated with high-tech innovations involve unique advancements in non-product areas, such as: pricing (SaaS subscriptions vs. licensing), delivery (downloads vs. retail) and customer experience (Apple vs. Microsoft). smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter, etc.)

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

This can be a blog article that helped you make a particular decision or a link in a Tweet that you found helpful. For instance, in the first line of your email, note: “I was speaking with John Greathouse and he thought it might make sense for us to connect regarding my company’s SaaS solution.” Caution: do not overplay your hand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m going through this situation now with the first investment that I ever made as a VC in Invoca – (Inbound voice call), a SaaS marketing automation company. Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2012

In a blog post, X1 said that the update was not just another company "re-branding the companys software as cloud" but is actually fully deployable and accepted as a part of the Amazon AWS ISV program.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Let’s say you have built a SaaS company where a large part of the early revenue comes from a few big customers or a large part of the revenue is services based vs. software based. How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. …

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

In the early 2000’s, SaaS was a nascent concept and most companies were reticent to rent software. Users, on the other hand, immediately saw the benefits of SaaS. You can also check out his startup advice blog HERE. They appreciated that the software could be accessed from anywhere and that it was updated weekly.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Jackson, said over the weekend that it has debuted a new feature which lets companies embed a "raising capital" badge on their website or blog. Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , the developer of software for managing fundraising by startups, which is headed by early PayPal employee Eric M.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. As Michael notes, "While we wrote a blog post about the theme, it went viral thanks largely to the tweet button front and center on GitHub. We didn''t ask people to tweet it, they just did.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2011

CapLinked said in its blog that its site is temporarily unavailable due to Amazon's hosting service issues. Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which operates a software service to help companies communicate with investors, is one of the firms caught by the widespread Amazon EC2 downtime today.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

The following guest post is from Laurie Barkman, Marketing Lead at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

Today’s tech landscape is dotted with companies that investors have valued at $1 billion or more—an elite club, members of which have come to be known as “ unicorns ,” and dozens of SaaS firms are among them.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 1, 2012

The following guest post is from Courtney Englert, Customer Success Intern at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Gaydos, Buzz Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. As Michael notes, "While we wrote a blog post about the theme, it went viral thanks largely to the tweet button front and center on GitHub. We didn''t ask people to tweet it, they just did.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. According to Michael Tasner, in his book “ Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Real time on-demand collaboration.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Hulme, blogging at Cloud Commons , believes that the cloud will spur a jobs explosion, though the jobs descriptions will differ. All types of IT expertise will be needed at SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS providers as well as independent software vendors [ISVs],” he said. Finally, IT security expertise will remain important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications now allow on-demand collaboration. According to Michael Tasner, in his new book “ Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Real time on-demand collaboration.

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Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. This is of particular concern with eCommerce businesses that can jump out of the gates at great speed racing to $100,000 or even $500,000 in monthly sales, but struggle to continue the growth beyond those milestones.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

I call this process “ triangulation ” and highlighted it that blog post I wrote on the topic. I often find myself coaching people, “Of course we could come up with an informed view on [this topic] but I’d rather we dedicate even more time to recruiting an expert we trust to run this function.”

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2018

Reachify, founded in 2015 and based in San Diego, targets medical groups with software-as-a-service (SaaS) that consolidates phone, e-mail, social media, and other electronic communications into a centralized hub and collaborative workplace. See below. ]

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

CEO Randy Apuzzo said Zesty changed from a Web development firm to to SaaS in 2015, with the guidance of successful entrepreneurs like GoFundMe co-founder Andy Ballester, Rocket League video game creator Dave Hagewood, and Facebook early operations engineer Taner Halicioglu. Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

The three most common ways to safely reduce the utility of a free service are: Limited Usage - Effectively deployed by numerous SaaS companies in which their users consumer more of the company''s services over time, including: file sharing (Dropbox, Box), photo sites (PhotoBucket, flikr) and online storage ( ElephantDrive , Mozy).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? You own how much?”

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

The three-year-old company already provides its content management system on a software-as-a-service basis (SaaS) for such customers as Sony, Acorns.com, and Rocket League, said Widmer, who took over as CEO from Zesty.io After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach. forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

For another perspective which I certainly agree with, check out Kevin Drum’s blog post on The Power of Single-Mindedness at [link] but keep in mind that anything taken to the extreme probably isn’t a good idea…”. Most big companies initially rejected use of the cloud, just as they rejected SaaS solutions when we launched GoToMyPC in 2001.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Kyriba has been making cloud-based software since well before software-as-a-service (SaaS) became a tech buzzword. Nearly 20 years ago, the company, a spin-off of a French firm, began developing software to provide chief financial officers and other finance leaders with a comprehensive view of company cash and liquidity.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego is intended to showcase local startups that are focused on innovation in such areas as Software as a Service (SaaS), consumer Internet, mobile technology, hardware, and defense technology.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. This is of particular concern with eCommerce businesses that can jump out of the gates at great speed racing to $100,000 or even $500,000 in monthly sales, but struggle to continue the growth beyond those milestones.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40